There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative:
instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying authored narrative content, a system …

Story sifters attempt to automatically or semi-automatically extract nuggets of compelling
narrative content from vast chronicles of game or simulation events. Though sifting has …

This paper presents Neighborly, a customizable, community-scale social simulation engine
for procedurally generating settlements of characters for use in research experimentation or …

Interactive narrative systems are often embedded in games: works of playable media that
enable players to participate in or experience a story through game mechanics. But play …

We discuss the issues of authoring for story sifters: systems that search for compelling
emergent narrative content within the vast chronicles of events generated by interactive …

Finding characters and events of interest in a large story world with possibly hundreds of
characters can be challenging. Story sifting is the method of sorting through a story world's …

The practice of building intelligent narrative technologies is implicitly grounded in a
sociopolitical context whose values are reflected in the artifacts we build and our narration of …

AgentCraft is an entry for the Generative Design in Minecraft (GDMC) AI Settlement
Generation Competition, including the optional Chronicle Generation challenge. It makes …

Interactive emergent narrative games often make use of social simulation techniques,
including the modeling of character relationships and knowledge, to generate compelling …

Creativity has been proclaimed as a grand challenge for research in both artificial
intelligence (in the form of computational creativity) and human-computer interaction (in the …